I’m slowly making my reentry into the DJ world in Second Life; about a year ago i started to lose interest in spinning music, together with a lot of other stuff i loved to do. I just didn’t had the stamina anymore to play for two hours, after a set i was exhausted, i could not keep up with the new music, new tracks and so on, so one club after another i stopped spinning in complete frustration.

I will be performing at the annual Second Life birthday party, 2 sets of 1 hour, now how cool is that? I don't know the exact details yet but so far i can tell you all this, it will be Friday from 2 till 3 AM and Saturday between 12 and 1 AM, i hope you all take the time to visit.... So if you would like to hear and see both or one of these sets check back later to find on what stage I'll be spinning....

Because I send my audio signal through a analogue mixer and then use SAM Broadcaster to send it to the Shoutcast server (SAM has an awesome ACG, with a stereo enhancer) I always had issues sending my track info, after two days of scripting, editing xsl files and fiddling, I finally have a way to pick up the track info with SAM Broadcaster from the IceCast server and send the track info along with the stream.

Now because of Traktor being able to broadcast itself to an IceCast server, I finally figured out a way to pick up the track info with a script, and send it only once to the stream.

I installed IceCast on the machine running Traktor, broadcast with Traktor to that server, wrote an xsl snippet to grab the IceCast track info, and put it on the IceCast webserver, then wrote a script for SAM Broadcast to pick up the song info, and send it out to the running encoders.

Now I can use my main stream for track info, stream, and listener count, and don’t depend on the SHX boards to show this info separately, which always ended up in a listener count being 0.